It's probably more worth it than Hacker News. I submitted my new site Cancel Culture Live (cancelculturelive.com) yesterday evening and it was just removed. Months working on a new shiny webapp, it starts getting a few upvotes and traction on HN, only to be removed?
Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
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Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#22No.
Is that a "No" to "Is Product Hunt worth it?" or a "No" to "it's a pyramidal echo chamber..."?
Not worth it. You get a tiny number of visits (compared to what you need to make a viable marketing plan.) The people who visit are interested in their own products, not in yours.
If your product was something that guaranteed some other product could get a handful of visits from Product Hunt that would be a good product for Product Hunt.
Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#23As a consumer/user, I take a ProductHunt logo/link/etc. on a landing page as a negative signal.
Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#24i know i don’t need a product when they advertise their ProductHunt rating
it’s an echo-chamber of marketers trying to push useless/trivial products for huge subscription fees
if you add your product you’ll get emails from people trying to sell you upvotes, then you know how it works
Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#25Been in product hunt since it was invite only beta. Things have changed a lot. In the beginning it was a community about hunting great products and nice discoveries. Nowadays is about paying hunters with a lot of followers to post your products and asking all your network to upvote your product to brag about how you made it to top X of Product Hunt. The posting about nice products of the internet and discovering them…
About a decade ago, I started a few side businesses that I believe, in retrospect, were entirely reliant on a few of my personal connections with associates of popular blogs, most notably Hypebeast.
Startup culture refers to this loss of curation as “democratization” which is a cynical gesture that really just means replacing things like person connections with a ‘highest spender’ promotion industry that is even more dishonest than the curation model. Neither model is democratic in any sense.
Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#26Been in product hunt since it was invite only beta. Things have changed a lot. In the beginning it was a community about hunting great products and nice discoveries. Nowadays is about paying hunters with a lot of followers to post your products and asking all your network to upvote your product to brag about how you made it to top X of Product Hunt. The posting about nice products of the internet and discovering them…
Is there anything they could do to fix this?
Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#27Since producthunt first came out, it's a weird community with just people clapping. I don't really understand what it does exactly
yeah right, it’s like founder’s church
when you launch everyone claps and congratulates
Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#28Been in product hunt since it was invite only beta. Things have changed a lot. In the beginning it was a community about hunting great products and nice discoveries. Nowadays is about paying hunters with a lot of followers to post your products and asking all your network to upvote your product to brag about how you made it to top X of Product Hunt. The posting about nice products of the internet and discovering them…
Is there anything they could do to fix this?
implement voting ring detection like on HN
Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#29its just a massive pyramid scheme. everybody goes there to vote, and roll the dice on getting the #1 tag for fake social proof. its useful for social proof insofar as the vast majority of people dont know that product hunt is fake.
semi related fun fact, i had a friend run the numbers for fun - 8% of "#1 of the day" winners die within a year of launch https://twitter.com/jakobgreenfeld/status/146816583831853875...
Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?
#30My initial launch on ProductHunt was total and utter crickets. Now we have ~500 customers, multiple $100K in ARR and two rounds of venture backing.
Without the humble brag, use a platform like PH as any marketing channel: email, blogs, Twitter etc. Never, EVER think a post on PH will be your defining marketing launch. Just like there is no magic one email, tweet or post that will define your product or make/break you. Expect nothing. The real work begins after launch.